Verum Serum has the irony-filled story of Pastor David Williams and his travails at YouTube. Pastor Williams took on a campaign by atheists on YouTube called the “blasphemy challenge.” Atheists challenged YouTubers to post videos of themselves committing blasphemy, and many have risen to the call.

Pastor Williams thought the challenge was silly nonsense, so he posted a video parodying the effort. YouTube yanked that video after just six hours, apparently on complaints that it was “Inappropriate Content.” Williams has since re-posted the video on Google, so you can see it here for yourself. There’s nothing inappropriate about it at all. It’s just good old-fashioned snark, of the type that the Rational Response Squad seems to have hoped to receive, just not from Christians. Verum Serum says that atheists led the charge in getting Williams’ video banned.

This follows closely on the heels of another YouTube censorship scandal, that one involving atheist Nick Gisburne.

“It’s a reminder that there is undoubtedly within a section, a small section, of the Lebanese Muslim community a group of people who are antagonistic to the values and the way of life in this country,” Mr Howard told the Nine Network.

A YouTube user today removed from the website several of the controversial videos, including the Skaf one, called lebo thugs, and another that shows a man being bashed by a gang.

The NSW Premier, Morris Iemma, said this morning that police and the Education Department would investigate whether lebo thugs included images of any current Sydney school students.

A police spokesman said the video will be sent to the NSW Police Legal Services Unit, which will establish if there are any charges arising out of the footage.

He also said the Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad and the Counter Terrorist Unit had been informed and police would be making inquiries with the Department of Education.

The three-minute video is backed by a rap song and includes an image of Skaf with a rifle on his lap, footage of a Cronulla riot revenge attack, a photo montage of a group referred to as the “Soldiers of Granville Boys”, and a map of Australia in the colours of the Lebanese flag with the words “under new management” scrawled above it.

Another scene shows a Granville Boys High School shirt with a knife placed on it.

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